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Video: Bat sounds reveal bat secrets
The Carolinas Regional Acoustic Bat Survey aims to identify bats, where they are going, and how they are doing in urban and rural environments by recording their calls. https://www.pbs.org/video/bat-sounds-reveal-bat-secrets-mqvq9v/
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Video: 10 Ultrasonic Sensor Projects
This video is about 10 Ultrasonic Sensor Projects you can make yourself.
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Article: Monitoring Solitary Bees Using Open Technology
“Bees in the Backyard” is a citizen science technology project to investigate the nesting behavior of Mason bees, by Mike Teachman, amateur bee enthusiast and Paul Perrault senior field applications engineer. https://blog.arduino.cc/2016/02/23/monitoring-solitary-bees-using-open-technology/
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Video: Soundscape ecology
Soundscape ecology is a growing field of research that uses sound to track how ecosystems change over time. Bryan Pijanowski and Matt Harris work with a team of researchers to collect hours of sound at locations from the Alaskan tundra to a rainforest in Borneo. By analyzing the recordings they can reveal changes in each…
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Video: Professor David Dunn’s Bark Beetle Patent (UC Santa Cruz)
UC Santa Cruz music professor David Dunn has received a patent to help fight bark beetles ravaging Western forests, killing millions of trees throughout the West. Read more on his invention and solution. Find out more about this technology and art collaboration in this UC Santa Cruz video.
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Video: David Dunn- Sonic weapon successful in bark beetle battle
Forest scientists at Northern Arizona University, desperate to stop the massive devastation from bark beetle infestation, have recruited a powerful and unconventional force to fight this fierce little bug—Santa Fe musician and composer David Dunn.
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Online Radio: Bat-lovers unite! Monitoring, protecting and loving our flying mammal friends
The Taos Land Trust has been monitoring the bat population at Rio Fernando Park in Taos, New Mexico for over a year. How do we do it? Bat expert Mike Balistreri explains the scientific process of monitoring bats, the status of bat populations in northern New Mexico and dives into the importance of bats for…
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Project: Arduino breath-controlled digital windmill project
Imagine how you might adapt this project to the theme of pollinators, bats and biodiversity loss. Imagine if you could blow into a microphone and cause a windmill to spin. You can with the Breath Controlled Windmill. While one of the simpler Arduino projects for kids, it’s great for beginners and teaches how sounds can…
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Arduino Project: Project Hub. 107 Arduino projects for kids
How can you adapt one of these tutorials to make something around the topic of Pollinators? Arduino Project Hub has 107 easy coding projects to try out.
